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10 Centavos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional Ultramarino |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | ND (1921 - old date 5.11.1914). Purple on multicolor underprint. Arms at right, steamship seal at lower center. Signature varieties. Back: Allegorical woman looking out at sailing ships at center. Printer: BWC. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO EM CABO VERDE DEZ CENTAVOS MOEDA CORRENTE LISBOA, 5 de Novembro de 1914. Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co. Ld. Gravadores, Londres (Translation: National Bank Overseas in Cape Verde Ten Cents in Currency Lisbon, November 5, 1914. Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co. Ltd. Engravers, London) |
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Banco Nacional Ultramarino's 10 Centavos of 1921 was issued for Mozambique at a moment when the colony's currency infrastructure was in genuine disarray — postwar inflation had driven low-denomination coin out of circulation entirely, forcing the BNU to plug the gap with fractional paper. These small-value emergency notes were a practical fix, not a planned series.
Bradbury, Wilkinson handled the printing, as they did for much of the BNU's colonial output during this period. Notes of this denomination circulated hard and were rarely preserved; surviving examples in any condition are substantially scarcer than the catalog frequency of the type might suggest.